Is this bad?
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From: KYLE
Is this bad?
Does hitting the rev limiter hurt the I6? I drive pedal to the floor everywhere and every now and then i top it out. I get about 12MPG but i make up for it with the time i save. Should i end my speedy ways?
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Is this bad?
How fast are you going? What year truck? What gears/tires/transmission? I set the cruise at 85mph for 1,000 miles last weekend and every once in a while, I hit the peg (which is around 90mph). I've never found a rev limiter in my '95 computer.
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From: KYLE
Is this bad?
its a 94 XLT auto tranny. My speedometer quits at 85 and keeps going til it pegs and after that my RPM's hit 3 grand in overdrive and the limiter kicks in which according to my calculations is about 107-110 MPH. All i want to know is, is it hard on my truck to max it?
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From: KYLE
Is this bad?
i dont hit the limiter to often but it was on my mind so i thought i would ask, it costed me 50 bucks in a race w/ a 302 once tho, nose to nose about 50 feet from the finish marker and the rev limiter kicked in and he won by like 5 feet.
